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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My question is who cares. Do you think “solving” this will get your kid into a better school? How about this? Donate a ton of money to these schools so they can increase capacity. This is a supply and demand issue.  [/quote]

this is not what donations fund.

I'm also interesting in solving this bcs we have a mental health crisis in this crisis and this isn't helping. My kids have now all been accepted into college.  Sometimes, people do things and care about things that don't directly impact them. Some of us don't have a "who cares" approach to the world.[/quote]

Are you claiming that selective college admissions is causing a mental health crisis?[/quote]

DP but I will make that claim.  We ask too much of teenagers and there’s too much pressure. Then, because everyone is burning the candle at both ends, it takes a 4.5 and a two page resume to get into your state flagship so despite busting your tail and getting a 4.0, you end up at a school you could have gotten into with a 3.5 and one sport a year.  We’re killing our kids, yes. And college admission expectations play a big role.  [/quote]

Fair enough. I told my kid not to bother playing the game for those exact reasons. Kid not stressed and neither are his close friends.[/quote]

Same.  My one kid did not play the games (think 1300 SAT, 3.5 UW gpa--not going to an elite school).  They did what they enjoyed in HS for ECs and for classes.  Kid is a successful, happy adult, doing extremely well at their first job.  
Other kid had much higher stats but still didn't fully play the game.  Didn't take AP Humanities because they didn't interest them and would have taken extra 10-15 hours/week for each course and my kid wanted to do the EC they loved for 20-25+ hours per week.  Choose to let them do what they liked and focus AP courses on their interests.  Chose to give them the opportunity to actually sleep 4-5 hours each night vs 2-3 with the APUSH would have meant.  They still took 8 APs, but in areas that interested them (STEM).  So they didn't get into the T10 or one ranked in the 20s (got WL), but they got into EVERYWHERE else and with excellent merit.  And I'm not sure the missing AP courses would have gotten them into those schools.  And interestingly, at their top 2 final choices, the "core curriculum" courses can NOT be fulfilled with AP credits---so the only reason my kid thought of taking APUSH or AP English in 11th was to get the college credits and that would not have happened for them.  So happy, healthy well adjusted kid who enjoyed HS as much as they could during covid.   who btw, loves where they ended up and has no regrets at all [/quote]

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